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Environment & Energy

izquierdista

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1. I could go along with this

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 05:46 PM

Dec 2011

As long as the reactor was buried deep enough to 'abandon in place' when it was no longer useful. The solution to the problem of nuclear waste has been known for a long time -- put the reactors where they cannot come into contact with the biosphere.

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Small (nuclear) reactors could figure into U.S. energy future [View all] OKIsItJustMe Dec 2011 OP

I could go along with this izquierdista Dec 2011 #1

Could you bury a reactor so deeply that it could not be dug up again? OKIsItJustMe Dec 2011 #2

Yes....like half a mile or so. izquierdista Dec 2011 #3

Wow Mr. Peabody. Thanks for the trip in the wayback machine OKIsItJustMe Dec 2011 #4

Two words: "Water Table" nt DCKit Dec 2011 #5

7 words izquierdista Dec 2011 #6